Join a national Alzheimer's research registry

7:10 AM,
Sep. 16, 2013

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The Enquirer

Alzheimer's researchers believe that previous drug trials targeted patients too late, after the disease already wrecked the brain and ravaged memory and thinking. But to test the theory that Alzheimer's can be stopped with the correct drug or treatment, scientists need volunteers.

By 2015, Banner Health's Alzheimer's Institute in Phoenix aims to recruit up to 250,000 people with a family history, a genetic predisposition or who are healthy, and will make its registry available to academic and pharmaceutical companies that are conducting prevention trials.